www.marineplastic.org

After updating the Beach Plastic Inventory I decided that it would be interesting to see other peoples finds. So I have created, with a little coding help form my friend Neil at Beamtwenty3 an on-line site to do this. If you find a beached plastic object take a photo and email it to me from the contact button on the website. You will find all the details and information to do this from the navigation links.

Get some fresh salty sea air, some exercise, and at the same time have fun hunting for interesting plastic objects washed up on to the shore to take photos of. Then send them to me via the site and I will publish your find along with others. Be part of this collaborative art project, and help also to create more awareness of the plastic pollution of our seas.

Going through folders on my pc, I remembered a series of 25 photos I took of the corpses of sea birds on Chesil Beach, Portland, Dorset, UK in 2002. The walk was a 15 min stretch at the most and I don't think I photographed all of them.

The discarded nylon lines of fishermen have claimed the life of many a beautiful bird and this Gannet was one of them. Please take your rubbish home!

Below was the state of the highest point of the beach, I grabbed a bag full of plastic from across the whole bay - 7 particular items can be seen in the Beach Plastic Inventory scroll to the bottom of the images for the new finds.

Late last year MCS was chosen as one of 2 charities to be Deutsche Bank's charity of the Year 2010. In March of this year an art auction to raise funds for The Marine Conservation Society will take place at the London head quarters of Deutsche Bank.

Invited Artist from across the UK have submitted work for this cause and I was lucky enough to be asked. I have gladly donated a Blue Marine/Beach Plastic combination piece, (See here), and fully support the good work MCS do, best of luck.

Wills Art will be taking my work to The Glasgow Art Fair, so if your near, pop along a get yourself an original McPherson Marine Plastic artwork.

Yes eventually I managed to get the new website to a point where I am happy to say its done. I will no doubt find little tweaks to do or wish to add extra text and as new works are completed I will update it. But as it stands its there, so check it out and see what you think.www.stevemcpherson.co.uk

from Friday

The first Update of the Marine Plastic Inventory of 2010, including the image below, showing not only the object that I picked up (another pencil sharpener), but 15 other plastic pieces in the small area of the photograph, such is the scale of the pollution of our beaches, and that wasn't a bad day either.

give me a couple of weeks and it will be complete and live

As it says in the title of this entry - I will have work at the Affordable Art fair in Brussels, in 2010 - not far off now! Visit the website here

Watch Ruth Watsons Hotel Rescue on the date above, to see one of my works and me being interviewed about our friends new B&B in Margate (The Reading Rooms). Heres a capture from the 4od site:

Wills Art Warehouse will be showing my work at the Affordable Art Fair Autumn Collection, see websites and dates above.

(click on the text below the image in the column to the right to see the latest finds)

I will be showing work at the Landmark Art Fair in just over a weeks time. Im filling in where someone has opted out. I am now on a frantic series of late night studio sessions, making sure all is ready for the show.

I have five '2 for 1' tickets to give away, email me your address and I will pleased to send you one

Had a good time at BAF09, met loads of interesting people, artists, art lovers, students, gallery owners etc. Loads of good feedback about the work, and a hope to do it again next year. click on the images below.